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Can you find the number of miles of cable it took to build the bridge? Speed limit on the bridge? Alcatraz? |
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Photo was taken from Yurba Buena Island looking West toward Sanfrancisco. Composed of 105 images taken with a Canon 20D mounted on a modified Gigapan panoramic head. EXIF Data: Camera Model: Canon EOS 20D Owner: Chad Pfarr Date/Time: 2008:10:08 15:26:27 Copyright: chad pfarr Shutter speed: 30 sec Aperture: 9 Exposure mode: Manual Flash: Off Metering mode: Multi-segment ISO: 100 Focal length: 200mm Image size: 3504 x 2336 Color profile: IEC 61966-2.1 Default RGB colour space - sRGB |
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San Francisco from Treasure Island at Night. I wish that I had taken a gigapan of the sunset that night instead of eating dinner. It was an absolutely beautiful sunset, but I was hungry and had not eaten since 10am that morning. I looked for a way to photograph this from Yerba Buena island, but it is difficult find a location with an unobstructed view without permission from another party. I used a collapsible portrait reflector as a shield against occasional gusts of wind. I also positioned the tripod with a large tree on the other side to guard against wind gusts from the other direction. I will definitely return to make another attempt. You can see Alcatraz island to the right. I brought the blacks level up some, so the Golden Gate bridge on the right is diminished to highlights. The Palace of fine arts is most likely behind the trees with the spot light shinging up at an angle at the edge of the Presidio in the marina district. |
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This location in the regional preserve is North of Livermore California by about ten miles. It is about thirty miles from Berkeley California. The area is really rather remote for being so close to urban areas. It is great to have parks and hills. Mount Diablo is the peak that you see.
The image consited of 1600 images of 9 megapixels each to produce an image of 210,000 by about 20,000 pixels to make a 4 gigapixel image. There was a great deal of image overlap. It took two ales to complete the exposure of this image. It also took six days for my dual core to process this. |
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The Sandpiper is a traditional bed and breakfast located on California’s North coast in Elk California. The rooms have a great view of a cove and the surf. A large and lush garden exists on the surf side with a bench or two. This is a fine place to watch the sunset and have a little wine. The rooms here are comfortable and traditional.
http://www.greenwoodpierinn.com/ This shot was taken about a hlf mile North of the room looking back towards the Sandpiper: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=12535 |
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A view from Twin Peaks |
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Laguna Beach California on a sunny Saturday afternoon. |
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Third of a series of three views of the spectacular folds in the Calico Hills just east of Barstow, California. |
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The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is an oceanfront amusement park in Santa Cruz, California. Founded in 1907 it is California's oldest surviving amusement park and one of two seaside parks on the West Coast of the United States (the other being the Santa Monica Pier).
The eastern end of the boardwalk is dominated by the Giant Dipper roller coaster, one of the best-known wooden coasters in the world and one of the most visible landmarks in Santa Cruz. The Dipper and the Looff Carousel, which still contains its original 342-pipe organ built in 1894, are both on the United States National Register of Historic Places. Entrance is free, rides cost between $2-4 each. Rides opened daily during summers and weekends during off-season. |
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October 25th, 2009 Monta Vista 30, Cupertino 0 -Monta Vista- QB Freddy Kuo 2/7 94 yards 2 TDs, 0 ints -Cupertino- QB Kenny Leong 7/20 89 yards 0 TDs, 2 ints |